Pastry

225g (1 1/2) cups plain flour, sifted

100g unsalted butter, cubed

1 tbs icing sugar

A little milk, to brush

Method

Preheat oven to 200°C.

To make the pastry, place the flour, butter and icing sugar in a food processor and process until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add enough chilled water (about 4-5 tablespoons) for the mixture to come together to form a smooth ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes to chill.

Meanwhile, wrap the pumpkin in foil, place on a baking tray and roast in the oven for 40 minutes or until tender. Set aside to cool slightly, then place pumpkin in a food processor with the spices, vanilla extract, rum and cream and process to combine.

Beat together the eggs and sugar in a small bowl, then stir into the pumpkin mixture.

Roll out the pastry and use to line a 23cm pie dish. Trim the pie and reserve excess pastry. Line with non-stick baking paper, then fill with pastry weights or rice and blind bake for 10 minutes. Remove the paper and weights, then pour in the pumpkin mixture. Roll out reserved pastry and use a leaf-shaped pastry cutter to cut out leaves to decorate edge of pie. Brush the leaves with milk. Reduce the oven temperature to 170°C and bake for a further hour until the filling is set. Set aside to cool. Serve with the extra cream.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

I went to the book store the other week & finally, finally found a book I was looking for.

Ok, so for the last 2-3 weeks i've been watching the Sex & The City DVDs (which is why i haven't blogged in a while..hehe) & ever since the movies came out I've been looking for a book called The Carrie Daries. The book is be Candace Bushness, who wrote the Sex & The City book :)

I was in Dymocks & found both The Carrie Diaries & Sex & The City. I was sooo excited.
So I've started reading The Carrie Diaries. At the moment I'm only up to chapter 6, but am trying to read at least 1 chapter a day :) ....I'm not a big reader lol.

Here's a pic of what the books like incase you decide you want to check them out.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Today I'm so excited coz as I said in my Vlog, I'm doing my room Parisian style & over the last couple of days I've bought a few new things for my room :)

I'm in-love with this store called Typo and I bought 2 magazine holders, 2 pencil holders (1 I'm using for my makeup brushes) and a mini Eiffel Tower! So cute!

I also went into this amazing store called Dusk, which has sooooo many scented candles. So a bought 4 new candles (3 of which are the same candle, will show pics below) The 2 different scents are: Awakening (lime and tangerine essential oils) and Meditation (juniper and frankincense) They smell AMAZING! Also got cute lil holders to put them in :)

Saturday, April 16, 2011

So on my YouTube channel I put a haul vid up and said I'd do a review on this product.

This is the 10.0.6 Deep Down Detox Mud Mask.

On the website is says: This super-cleansing team of ingredients Orange, Bergamot and Sea Salt work together to detoxify and banish impurities. For a clearer, brighter complexion - book your skin in for a Deep Down Detox today... and every other day!

A friend f mine asked me if it made my skin feel like it was burning. This one didnt, however the pink one did when i used it ages ago.

This one makes my skin feel refreshed and clean. You can get it in little sashes if you want to try that out first.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

I went into the city today to get some new makeup & i managed to get my hands on some more candles & a curling wand :)

Firstly I went to Dusk to get some candles for Earth Hour this Saturday night (8:30 - 9:30)
I bought another Awakening candle & 2 echo friendly candles which are part of Dusk's Elements range. I bought 2 of the Evening Breeze & it contains Florida orange oil

From Dusk I bought: 2 different scented candles (needed 3 little ones to fit in the holder i bought).
One's called Awakening & the other is Meditation.
Awakening has lime and tangerine essential oils in it & its so energising :)Meditation has juniper and frankincense in it, so relaxing :)

here are some pics of what i bought :) am so happy with them allxxxxJem

So the other day I wrote a post using my iPhone blog app & i thought it posted it but apparently not :( so...I'm going to try and re-type it :)

I've been feeling really inspired by the people around me lately :) my bestie is losing weight and getting into a great routine of excersize :) it's really good to see her so dirterminand.. Hehe it makes me realize that I really need to start excersizing more and eating healthier. So I've decided to try a detox diet, all healthy food and only teas, no coffee, which will be really hard coz I've just finished up work in the CBD where i'd have a coffee everyday at work.

Other inspirations have been these two lovely girls I'm following on Twitter & YouTube who d blogs & Vlogs of all things beauty and fashion :) Elle & Blair Fowler. They've inspired me to start blogging more and I'm going to (once I sort my room out) is do a Vlog. Am thinking a "What's in my bag" video to start with :)
If you want to check them out they have a new site:

Oh the other thing that I've been inspired about is starting uni :) I want to do a of Social Studies, majoring in Chapliancy :) for those who dint know a Chaplin in the christian, kinda, counsellor usually found in high schools :)
Anyway point is, I watched Elle Fowlers Vlog on "What's in. My back to school bag" and it got me mega excited to start stationary shopping for uni :)

Sorry this had turned into an epically long blog, I think Ive covered everything that was in the one that didnt work.